Is Rob Edwards A Good Manager Or Should He Go?

[Lycan]

Time for this classic

 

[YoungWolf]

I don’t think this poll will be particularly split….

But we’re all going to be very disappointed. This club is too predictable, we will sack him in November after an average start.

God I hope I’m wrong.

 

[Lycan]

I don’t think this poll will be particularly split….

But we’re all going to be very disappointed. This club is too predictable, we will sack him in November after an average start.

God I hope I’m wrong.

I hope you're wrong as well.

I think when you look at his words and actions at the end of the game yesterday and it seems like a manager who knows he's done.

Then again we don't do anything orthodox as a club so we could easily keep him.

 

[PuntsWolf]

He’s definitely done. I didn’t see any of the game yesterday but if the fans in the ground have started to turn then there’s never a way back. Just depends how long it drags on for.

Sensible approach is to just have a clean slate in the summer. But this club doesn’t do sensible things.

Even if he was some championship specialist (which he isn’t), the baggage from this season is too big anyway and he won’t succeed. Hiring a manager in October for the following season was always a terrible idea.

 

[Mel Evo]

I hope you're wrong as well.

I think when you look at his words and actions at the end of the game yesterday and it seems like a manager who knows he's done.

Then again we don't do anything orthodox as a club so we could easily keep him.

We defy logic don’t we? The end of the GON era took a ludicrous amount of time. He seemed to be asking to be sacked for weeks. The complete poverty of his management is then exposed, immediately, by VP. So how do we apply the learnings made? By trying to appoint GON again.

My guess is that Shi II was part of all that, so I expect a repeat. We’ll see. It’s his chance.

 

[Tony Towner]

He’s definitely done. I didn’t see any of the game yesterday but if the fans in the ground have started to turn then there’s never a way back. Just depends how long it drags on for.

Sensible approach is to just have a clean slate in the summer. But this club doesn’t do sensible things.

Even if he was some championship specialist (which he isn’t), the baggage from this season is too big anyway and he won’t succeed. Hiring a manager in October for the following season was always a terrible idea.

There's only 1 correct answer to the question, but sacking him before giving him the opportunity to do the job you appointed him for in the first place is an awful look even if it's the right one. Which is why I don't think we will. The WM forum the week after next will be interesting if the tickets have gone to a true representative sample, I tend to think that's not who goes to that sort of thing though, more likely the Dazzling Dave types 'lovely to meet you Rob, will Tom Edozie be part of your plans for next season'

 

[Haggstone]

He’s not a very good manager, he shouldn’t even be here in the first place. Hopefully the club see him for what he is, a £4m caretaker manager, pin the blame on the guy that is no longer in charge who hired him and move on. I’m hoping whatever his remit was when we hired him has not been met. It can’t just have been to get us past Derbys points total. Why would we pay £4m for that?

 

[basher]

Edwards is cooked.

I don't rate him, feel that even taking into account the terrible hand he has been dealt, he hasn't shown anything that makes me feel he can deliver in the Championship.

Even if he was a decent coach/tactician, the scars of this miserable season will run deep and I don't see how you get over that in the short break over the summer?

Get rid.

 

[Hereford Wolf]

Unfortunately for him, he won’t survive the first 12 games. He also thinks Jackson Tchatchoua is a reasonably good player.
No matter who we buy, his tactics (such as they are) are abysmal. And anyway, The fans won’t put up with it for long in the Championship.
How’s Mick McCarthy nowadays?

 

[Tredman]

PTS weighs in and manages to say nothing.

The great Rob Edwards debate: Do Wolves stick or twist after fans turned on their coach?

Fans called Edwards a "w****r" after their 1-1 draw with 10-man Sunderland. Has he reached the end of the road with Wolves?

www.nytimes.com

 

[Deano]

He reckons he's getting the best out of the players and he reckons that the atmosphere the fans created made it difficult for them yesterday. Takes fuck all responsibility for the dire results and performances.

 

[PPB]

As good looking as he is, I'd like him gone asap. He's shite.

 

[Tony Towner]

He reckons he's getting the best out of the players and he reckons that the atmosphere the fans created made it difficult for them yesterday. Takes fuck all responsibility for the fire results and performances.

Thinking there was some sort of bond between the fans and someone who spent 4 years predominantly on the bench or the physios room was one of Shi I's many mistakes. Edwards trying to use that as returning to 'his' club when it was clearly about salary and location and thinking the fans would swallow it, was one of his.

 

[prawnking]

sacking him before giving him the opportunity to do the job you appointed him for in the first place is an awful look even if it's the right one

The man who employed him is 'no longer at Wolves' so I'd hope that would be justification for Shi II to have a look at it dispassionately

 

[Lupo]

He was a shit, uninspiring appointment to begin with and nothing he has done since has improved my opinion of him. The football is as dull and uninspiring as he is and all I hear from him is about 'workin ard' and 'fightin'. His views on the games don't tally with what we're seeing.

There is such negativity around him now its hard to see him coming back from it. It's a lot of baggage to take into next season and anything short of a perfect start will see it continue. I also don't trust him with the summer rebuild and he doesn't have the pull factor to attract players that a better manager would.

He's crap, I feel exactly as I did with Lambert, Lage and O'Neil - can't wait for the day he's gone

 

[big mean bunny]

He reckons he's getting the best out of the players and he reckons that the atmosphere the fans created made it difficult for them yesterday. Takes fuck all responsibility for the fire results and performances.

Not a fan of the squad at all and recruitment has been woeful but in recent weeks we have seen Krecji, Sa, Santi, Joao, Andre linked to Prem teams. Others have previously been linked like Mane and Hwang (as recently as start of the season). It's a poorly assembled team but it's not some Swindon or Luton where almost zero of them will ever feature in a top league again.

It's a relegation quality squad overall but there are elements there to indicate we could and should play better than we have.

 

[prawnking]

Agreed, it's obviously lacking some key components of pace, creativity, heart and leadership, which we could have tried to mitigate when we sacked Pereira and then in the January window, but we chose Rob Edwards, A Gomes and A Armstrong

 

[Sniffer]

Agreed, it's obviously lacking some key components of pace, creativity, heart and leadership,

…don’t forget footballing intelligence, a goal scorer and a consistent, competent keeper but apart from that, we’re right there ready for a shot back in the big time.

 

[Tony Towner]

Agreed, it's obviously lacking some key components of pace, creativity, heart and leadership, which we could have tried to mitigate when we sacked Pereira and then in the January window, but we chose Rob Edwards, A Gomes and A Armstrong

I still think the pool we'd have been picking from given how bunched the Championship was at the time (20th was 10 points off 6th at Xmas) was so shallow and our position so obvious that there wasn't much we could do outside of loans and that would have just been spending money for the sake of it as Gomes has proved.

Ironically the one player we did sign would probably have been promoted if he'd stayed put.

 

[big mean bunny]

I still think the pool we'd have been picking from given how bunched the Championship was at the time (20th was 10 points off 6th at Xmas) was so shallow and our position so obvious that there wasn't much we could do outside of loans and that would have just been spending money for the sake of it as Gomes has proved.

Ironically the one player we did sign would probably have been promoted if he'd stayed put.

Worryingly Southampton are much improved without him as it seems to have opened up their entire system.